[Hillary's book – What Happened? – published today. We're going on a short jaunt to a reunion of my old Army outfit, where we again renew ties with all those young lieutenants and captains, and our young pretty and perky wives with their infant fledglings in perambulators, all of whom now look pretty much like we do – tempest fugit. On the trip Jo Ann will be reading and reporting on the travails of Hillary who today told the Dems the bad news, "I'm not going anywhere." And one loud and clear message to her discerning readers (aka Democrats in high places) from between the lines of her book is, 'Don't assume that you know everything that I know about you all.' gjr]
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279 responses to “Sandbox – 12sep17”
Correlation does not imply causation, but sometimes it does. Cause and effect?
A). Cause.
Go ahead, I dare you. I double dog dare you.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/919867091496847/?type=3&theater
B) Effect.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/09/16/box-office-poison-jennifer-lawrences-mother-crashes-career-low-8m/
Well said:
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/920378724779017/?type=3&theater
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Your thought for the day……
Big fun in store for Europe!
Hey “jon”…….when can we expect to see all those economic benefits you touted a while back?
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Trump retweets violence against women. Shocking. Disturbing. What a misogynist. Stop the violence! Stop making me laugh.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Fuctupmind/status/908163011793358848/photo/1
What happened.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Fuctupmind/status/908161858544300032/video/1
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Let’s hope Scott has his firewood supply up to snuff.
https://www.iceagenow.info/montana-snow-60-days-early/
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HUUUGE turnout at Trump rally!
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/09/16/pro-trump-mother-rallies-d-c-s-national-mall-sees-laughable-turnout.html
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If we wanted your opinion bunhole, we would ridicule one out of you.
Don’t you have a movie to try and pirate?
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Posted by: BunBun | 17 September 2017 at 11:35 AM
WOW….that was pretty bad! A person could be forgiven for thinking they were seeing a “Hillary for President” rally.
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Hey Bill…..Sacbee is whining about your YouTube video…..
I found it delightful!
http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article173822696.html
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Well,,, the bullshit still flows from the Government.
” Just space junk burning on re-entry”. Yaaa…. You forgot the swamp gas explanation.
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/234132/strange_lights_spotted_in_sky_above_salt_lake_city/
From someone else,, http://fox13now.com/2017/09/16/strange-lights-spotted-in-sky-above-salt-lake-city/
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BuBu 11:3&am
a. Trump ralley without Trump organized by someone unknown before and will probably remain unknown except for this.
The fake news here was in calling it a Trump rally. BuBu nade a boo-boo.
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1). Fish @ 7:38 in the AM:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214514410560465&set=p.10214514410560465&type=3&theater
2). Pushback. Ah, those young rebellious teenagers are sticking to Da Man again. Funny how those that chanted “power to the people” and “don’t trust anyone over thirty” are now on the receiving end of protests against The Establishment, a very bad institution. What goes around, comes around.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1166882380112464/?type=3&theater
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Walt at 9:14 – Ha! It was in the 70s today. Maybe a little rain for the next 3 days and then temps in the 60s. There was a bit of snow just to the north of us reported the other day. They are warning of another winter like last winter coming up. There was so much snow, the older barns and some buildings caved in. The records were still set back in the late 1800s before AGM had been invented. We’ll see.
I’m wondering how many of you folks in CA are going for the non-sex option on your DL.
Might as well just do away with that info at DMV if you can just make up whatever you want. The younger kids should demand to get their BD changed as well. Everyone can ‘feel’ that they are 21, right? What right do the doctors have to ‘assign’ a birth date based on the calendar?
What happened to Mr Cross?
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Rocking with Bernie on bankrupting the nation tonight.
https://youtu.be/1okS-KNYgmA
That was then, this is now. From the Chicago Tribune.
“It’s not clear that we as a country can afford Medicare as it currently exists. Merely preserving it without significant cuts would eventually require a tax increase that working people would resent. But instead of looking for ways to economize, the Vermont senator wants to expand the program in a way that the term “vast” barely begins to capture.
[Sanders’] majestic vision goes beyond merely including the entire U.S. population in Medicare — which would increase the number of recipients by sixfold in just four years. Sanders wants to add coverage for dental, vision and hearing needs, which the program now excludes. And he promises “no more co-pays, no more deductibles and no more fighting with insurance companies when they fail to pay for charges.”
He’s talking about a huge change. As a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation noted, “Medicare has relatively high cost-sharing requirements for covered benefits and, unlike typical large employer plans, traditional Medicare does not limit beneficiaries’ annual out-of-pocket spending.” In 2010, it found, the average recipient paid $2,746 for deductibles, coinsurance and the like (not counting premiums).
The Tribune column is correct. Even an expansion of Medicare for all Americans would bankrupt the country. Sanders’ plan goes much further”
Hanging with the Bern tonight. A one and a two, hit it boys.
https://youtu.be/8UAzhuiT3k8
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Well Scott, when snow hits 6 feed deep you can claim to be Eskimo.
As for Cross,, he might be back up on it.
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“Rocking with Bernie on bankrupting the nation tonight.”
We’re already bankrupt. Paul Krugman used to tell us not to worry about the debt because it was below our annual GDP. Now the that debt has gone above our GDP, he’s singing a different tune. ‘Don’t worry, because we have low interest rates.’ The debt will just grow but how do we engineer low interest rates forever?
Our projected growth of GDP is falling and health costs and un-funded retirement costs (pensions, SS, medicare, etc) are rising. The only reason this charade can continue is because no one wants to admit we can’t stop the train to fix the brakes because we can’t stop the train. The geniuses at the wheel insist the track ahead will be straight forever – no curves in sight.
At some point we’ll be forced into a totally digital economy and the govt can inflate at will without that burdensome problem of how to print enough cash to keep up.
Folks on a guaranteed income won’t care about any of it since they produce nothing and obviously can’t be taxed. I shudder to think of how the govt will then coerce anyone left with the ability to produce things of value to continue their labor in return for nothing more than what those that produce nothing get. Stalin? Mao?
Enjoy what we have, cause this won’t last. Ask the Venezuelans.
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Regardless of which side of the fence you are on drug prices are getting out of control. 10% of heath care costs go to drugs. Medicare cannot negotiate drug prices. Medicare has spent billions on Hep C drugs.
If Trump was any good at making deals he would do well to fix how Medicare purchases drugs.
Don’t know if Bernie is right about private insurance management costs but if 20% of health care costs are going to management fees at private insurers it makes Medicare’s 2% fees look like a good value.
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Just trying to brighten ypur Monday a little George.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleystahl/2017/08/11/why-democrats-should-be-losing-sleep-over-generation-z/#1c263cba7878
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Scenery at 8:21 – Total nonsense. Medicare can claim it has low overhead because it dumps the costs of collecting its income onto the employers, and the cost of a lot of the admin of its expenses on the health care providers. Private health care insurers are like all insurers – they have investments that earn money. Those investments need investment managers and that is factored in with all of the admin costs. The private health care insurers pay taxes on income plus their employees. A govt operated system generates nothing on investments and pays no taxes at all.
As far as cutting drug costs – good luck with that. Leftists have absolutely no idea what it costs to develop and bring a drug to market. Not to mention the costs of developing drugs that end up not working or having ruinous side effects. Those drugs bring in no money at all. Do some companies gouge? Yes, but the effect overall on the total of drug prices is minimal.
Modern health care is extremely expensive any way you look at it. Costs can be cut drastically but the general public won’t tolerate it. The left wants to solve the problem as it always does. Make ‘the rich’ pay for it. They don’t have the money and neither does the govt. I notice all the leftist that want free European style health care don’t seem to want to move to Europe.
We can cut costs and we can have health care for everyone, but you will have a hard time finding the folks to actually work for it and put up with the necessary changes to implement those lowered costs.
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…..sigh……and then reality set in….
Comrades……the Five Year Plan in four years……we must…..for glorious Soviet.
http://www.sacbee.com/#storylink=cpy
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fish – What? No single payer and now this! I’m sure the Koch bros are behind this sellout. Maybe they’ll re-introduce the same bill and require all renewables even sooner!
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“Medicare can claim it has low overhead because it dumps the costs of collecting its income onto the employers” –
I don’t see the difference. Are you saying private insurers don’t make employers manage their premium payments?
Employers?
How many (%) of 65+ Medicare patients are employed?
Should I assume you work for the insurance industry or drug manufacturers?
We are not talking plumbers here. We are talking about the nation’s health. Is that not a national security issue?
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No @ 1222. 😉
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BAM! 43rd record close for the S & P and the 57th record high for the dow since election day. 223334! 😉
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Posted by: Scenery | 18 September 2017 at 12:22 PM
Employers?
How many (%) of 65+ Medicare patients are employed?
Uh….Scenery…..if you are employed you are paying Medicare taxes….since there are more people paying for Medicare than are currently collecting it this has the effect of shifting administrative costs for premium collection onto “others”.
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Uh… Fish…..I don’t think so.
…if you are employed you are paying Medicare taxes….since there are more people paying for Medicare than are
currently collecting it this has the effect of shifting administrative costs for premium collection onto “others”…
All insurance is the same. Many people pay premiums and some receive benefits when they need them.
Antitaxers won’t like this…
Your monthly Medicare Part B premium will be higher if your income is above a certain amount. You’ll pay more for Part B if the income you reported on your IRS tax return two years ago was above $85,000 per year ($170,000 for couples).
https://www.medicareinteractive.org/…medicare…medicare…/what-you-pay-for-part-b-if…
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Posted by: Scenery | 18 September 2017 at 01:35 PM
All insurance is the same. Many people pay premiums and some receive benefits when they need them.
Your claim was about administrative costs not drawing benefits vs contributing to the pool.
Private insurance companies don’t get to outsource their premium collection to third parties. The cost effort to administer medicare at the employer level is born by the employer…..not Uncle Stupid……Medicare gets to look more efficient by shoving work onto others.
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Scenery – well – looks like fish beat me to it. Apparently Scenery doesn’t understand how things work.
“Antitaxers”? Who are they? You are referring, I guess, to anarchists.
“All insurance is the same.” No – private insurance has to make ends meet – the govt just prints more money.
For now.
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Oh OH! The “cooked books at NOAA” scandal published by the “Daily Mail” that supposedly duped world leaders into spending billions based on fake climate science.……..IS FAKE NEWS. Climate denial beliefs are based on fake news.. The glaciers are melting Martha.. how come? DUH!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-mail-climate-data-inaccurate-lamar-smith_us_59bfcbc4e4b086432b08a296?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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Sorry Cross wrong again. Just plain old climate changes.
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 18 September 2017 at 03:42 PM
….thanks Bobby!
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Anthem Agents 1 and 2, So much absurdity, but let’s just take this one – ‘The IRS collects the taxes that fund the program’… and the banks and collection agencies (and let us not forget employers who transfer the money directly to health insurance companies) responsible for transferring payments to insurance companies/doctors/hospitals aren’t included in ‘overhead’ either.
It is just utterly uninformed to think that Medicare is funded through a process which is any different than that through which a typical company pays its employee health insurance premiums – it is all just handled by payroll software for any company of normal size. And it is simply wrong to say that when a company uses a service like that provided by a company like PCS to pay disability insurance, workmen’s comp, IRA/401K plans, or even something like employee health insurance premiums, this is in any way, shape, or form different than FICA taxes being handled in exactly the same way.
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Who knew that the IRS is just like a real company?!?! 😉
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Not by fire, but by ice:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/07/09/mysterious-california-glaciers-keep-growing-despite-warming.html
Closer to home:
http://canadafreepress.com/article/tahoe-glacier-making-a-comeback
Better button up your overcoat, Bobbie, your pants are down around your ankles again.
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It is just utterly uninformed to think that Medicare is funded through a process which is any different than that through which a typical company pays its employee health insurance premiums – it is all just handled by payroll software for any company of normal size.
What the government has implemented in effect is healthcare welfare.
And the money that companies collect for the government they aren’t collecting for their employees, they’re collecting for recipients who almost certainly have no connection whatsoever with the business in question. Regardless of how you minimize it there are costs involved with the accounting, collecting, and transmission of the money sent from these businesses to the government.
That’s how Medicare makes their cost structure look so low relative to private insurers.
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Hay Cross.. Funny thing. No big hurricanes for about eight years. Right? According to you AGWers, that GW causes them. The claim is there was “NO pause”… Well WTF dude?
Now a few happen to show up. Maybe Mamma Earth knew “O” didn’t have what it took to deal with things.(too busy on the links to care) Now a real President is at the helm. Things can get back on track.
you really want cooling? Be careful of what you wish for. We are only ten thousand years out of the last ice age.. That’s just last week in geologic terms. I prefer a little warmth compared to 600 feet of ice at my current local.
Looking at the weather, Scott might be in for an early snow this week. ( kinds shoots the shit out of your AGW crap wagon.)
Get your heat supply now Cross,( unless your really buy that AGW BS) It could be a LONG Winter. ( so buy Hawaiian shirts and shorts for Christmas.)
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Fishie and todd… you know what they say… if it walks like a climate denier and quacks like a climate denier then ….. you know the rest. Don’t you feel just a little uncomfortable after the wettest storm and biggest hurricane since records have been kept hit within a week of each other after three consecutive years with record high world average temperatures? Warm air holds more water and warm water releases more moisture. And places in India and southeast Asia have been experiencing similar events. This is all just weather, right? DUH!
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Never ceases to amaze me that the lefties who constantly go on and on about how bad the old monopolies were and how wonderful it was that the govt broke them up turn around and clamor for health care to be a govt monopoly.
Oh sure – you can always go out and buy some private insurance of your own, but…
ahem, first – you have to pay to support the govt ‘single payer’. It’s not optional.
Just like govt schools. You have to pay for it like it or not – but if you have the money you can opt out for a private school. The poor are stuck with govt crap. How about vouchers? Then you get to vote for the best schools for your kids. Ah, but the schlubs won’t vote correctly.
If govt monopolies work so well, why don’t we have the govt run everything?
Oh – wait – it’s already been tried.
Didn’t work.
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Now Bobby. That “wettest storm and biggest hurricane since records have been kept ” is a load of shit. You should know that. Or did you drink the whole cool aid bowl?
You ditched my question the last time on this subject. Just who was keeping records before they figured out how to turn wind speed into MPH? My Grand Dad was alive before the invention of the speedometer. So you can go pound sand.
“wettest storm and biggest hurricane since records have been kept ” my ass.
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YOOOO Boooobie! When are you going to tell us about last years Huston hurricane? 😉
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“the wettest storm and biggest hurricane since records have been kept…”
Sorta like saying – “I talked to a single person from China, so I know all about everyone from China.”
Except the tiny amount of human experience with ‘recorded weather’ is even much smaller than that.
What about the ‘end of snow’ Mr Cross? Or have you inconveniently forgotten that bit of ‘settled science’?
What about ‘more frequent and more severe hurricanes’? That was followed by the reality of the quietest period of hurricane activity ever in the ‘recorded’ history of the US.
We’re waiting for Dr Cross to address these issues.
But we won’t hold our breath.
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Robert Cross | 18 September 2017 at 05:22 PM
But what are the facts Croosie? Worse hurricanes recorded by Captains of the Spanish Main in the 15500’s. Highest temps? Sorry, that is total BS. And 1/4 of one degree is hardly a change in local microclimates. You know, the little climates you know say are different from weather. You are simply uneducated in history and science so I’ll give you a pass for your ignorance.
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Oh and hey RC! Ever heard of the Yellowstone dam? It burst about ten million years ago after backing up in Wyoming and then headed across Washington State. Sand ripples finally got figured out. Anyway, water falls and sometimes a lot of water falls. Ask those on Kuai. 200 inches a year or so.
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Now that Bobby is left the building, I have news for bunhole and his/her/ it’s, side.
Some real political porn for our LIBS!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/18/clinton-considers-contesting-election-results.html
Still buttsore.
And to think the Proggys believe that can take back power anytime soon… As they say,, “good luck with that”.
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Yes, the swamp is being drained:
From todays NYT
With a Picked Lock and a Threatened Indictment, Mueller’s Inquiry Sets a Tone
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, then followed the house search with a warning: His prosecutors told Mr. Manafort they planned to indict him, said two people close to the investigation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/politics/mueller-russia-investigation.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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We don’t care. Trump Derangement man.
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Doesn’t matter whether you care or not Todd. The die is cast. Enjoy yourself while you can.
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We could care less what you write here. But you are deranged and we all know that.
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Gillespie up in Virginia and Moore up in Alabama.
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“WASHINGTON — Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his Virginia home. They took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files, looking for evidence that Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, set up secret offshore bank accounts. They even photographed the expensive suits in his closet.
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, then followed the house search with a warning: His prosecutors told Mr. Manafort they planned to indict him, said two people close to the investigation.”
Wow – just like they raided the Clintons. And took her secret server and got all of their hard drives before they went ‘missing’ and then indicted H Clinton.
Right?
Oh – that’s right, they didn’t.
She got to get rid of all incriminating evidence before investigators examined the server. And the hard drives? Well – they went missing.
You see, folks – I correctly predicted that a Trump admin would usher in a new era of folks actually investigating crimes and the news media becoming interested in political corruption.
Paul should thank Trump for a sudden interest in corruption that was missing when Obama was POTUS.
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Who is “we” Todd? the three or four other regulars on this blog?
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